The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-12-03
News of the We

IN tne mOunIaluS vi IhOduohc OOuuiy, va.
A young society man, of Keokuk, Iowa,
won a wager, made in jest, by eating thirty
six bannas at sitting.
The six days pedestrian contest was finish
ed on Saturday evening, in Philadelphia, Pa,
with the following score: Littlewood, 500
miles; Albert, $50; Panchot, oil; Noremac,
SOL; Elson, 500.
One of the largest benefactions in the his
tory of the world is that of the Baron Rirsch,
who has Just given S20,000,000 to Jewish
charities in Europe. Like a prudent man,
the baron gives the money during his lifetime,
and intends to see his wishes carried out
personally. His generosity eclipses in mag
nitude the gifts of Peabody.
A meeting of Episcopal clergymen was held
Monday afternoon in New York, for the pur-
pose of forming a burial reform association,
like that existing in England. Bishop Potter
presided. Rev. DR.. Kranz stated the object
of the association, which is to bring about
greater simplicity in funerals and in the meth
DDS of interments for rich and poor alike.
Ex.Gov. st. John, of Kansas, in an inter.
view in Chicago, Tuesday, said the result of
the recent State elections were very gratifying
to the prohibitionists. He claimed that they
were steadily increasing in numbers, and that
prohibition was q seccess in Kansas. He
said he would not under any circumstances
be candidate for President
Brown, Wood & Kingman, dry goods com
mission merchants, of New York, Boston,
Philadelphia and Chicago, went into liquida-
ton on Tuesday. They did business of
from S12, 900, 600 10 100000 year. W..
l.. Brown, one Of the partners, says the firm
is perfectly solvent and will have large sur
plus when the business is closed out.
The boiler used for heating water in the
Kirby House, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, ex-
ploded Tuesday morning, wrecking the rear
end of the building. Mrs. L. NJ. Gage, the
assistant cook, was killed, and twelve others,
nearly all women, injured, three dangerously,
1t is thought the accident was caused by the
freezing of the feed pipe supplying the boiler
with water.
The Dickson Manufacturing Company of
Scranton, Pa, has just completed the largest
boiler ever constructed i'll America. 1t is to
be used in the Calumet and Hecla copper
mines. The boiler is 35 feet 4 inches in
length, 10 feet inches wide, and II feet 6
inches high. 1t would require one maR 1920
days to build the boiler. 1t weighs As tons
and is of 1000 horse power.
In the village of Werchobistritzkoi, Russia
a school was burned on Sunday night, while
the inmates were asleep. All the boys, who
were sleeping on the ground floor, escaped.
The girls, forty in number, occupied sleeping
rooms on the upper floors, and "a of them
saved themselves by jumping from the win
dows. Sixteen were afraid to take the leap
and lost their lives in the flames.
A building in Wausau, Wisconsin, occupied
as residence by Carl Henikel, his wife and
five children, was destroyed by fire early on
Saturday morning, and before assistance could
reach them three of the children persisted,
and the other two and the father died in a
short time of their injuries. Mrs. Henikel is
severely injured, and it is feared that if she
lives she will be hopelessly insane. The
building was o wooden structure. double
boarded. filled in with sawdust and very in
fammable.
One of the most interesting of the annual
reports coming from Washington is that of
Secretary Lamar, who tells the story Of the
restoration to the public domain of q, $685.
600 acres of land heretofore Withdrawn from
settlement for the benefit of railroad corpora
tions, many of which had not fulfilled their
agreements with the Government and had ac-
uuired no title to the land, which was never
theless shut out from settlement. The area
above given is more than two thirds that of
Pennsylvania.
Parties who have been mining iron and
manganese in South Wallingford, Vermont,
for several months past, have, it is stated,
struck, at depth of 600 feet, the most ex.
tensive deposit ever found in that section.
The iron is in so pure state that it is shipp-
ed as it comes out of the earth to Bessemer,
where, after being mixed with other metal, it
is said to form the best quality of STEEL The
deposit shows that at some time in the past
great heat caused the melting and running to-
gether of the metal, leaving it free from i'm.
purity.
The election held in Atlanta, Georgia, on
Saturday, on the question of 'wet" or ''dry,"
resulted in the defeat of Prohibition by 1l22
majority. The Prohibition party in Atlanta,
Georgia, on Monday notified Ordinary Cal.
houn of their intention to contest the resulfof
the election of the 26th ullimo. They have
three days in which to file bill, and until it
is decided whether or not the contest will be
made. the Ordinary cannot announce the vote
as official. The vote, as reported from the
different precincts, figures up ll42 majority
for the Anti Prohibitionists.
1t is announced that nearly 1000, 900 tons
of coal have been taken to Duluth, over 200,-
900 tons more than last year, and yet it is
already evident that there will be a great
shortage in the supply this winter. The first
blizzard has arrived, and the towns of West
ern Minnesota and Eastern Dakota are even
now showing signs of anxiety. The report
comes from Huron that many people there
are preparing to bring hay burners into requi-
stion, and a telegram from Adrian announces
that there is not pound of coal for sale in
that town, and some distress is reported
among the poor.
james McCloy, a Niagara Falls guide, ac-
daring feat on Saturday. There
was an advertising sign on one of the small
islands above the Falls, which the Reserva-
ton Commission wanted removed. McCloy
was offered $40 some time ago if he would
take it away, and, availing himself of the low
water, on Saturday secured his long drill and
tying rope around his body, started out from
Bath Island. The rocks were slippery with
slime, and the water was rushing along at
over twenty miles an hour, yet he reached the
island, picked the sign up and flung it into
the rapid current.
The Court Of Appeals in Albany, New
York, on Tuesday handed down its decision
in the Jacob Sharp case. 1t reversed the de-
cision of the lower court and ordered a new
trial. The indictment found on October 18th,
1886, in substance accused Jacob Sharp and
six other persons of giving and offering and
causing 10 be gwen and offered to one Full
graft, member of the Common Council of
New York, $4,000 to influence him in
respect to the exercise of his powers as
Councilman upon the application of the |
Broadway Surface Railway Company for the
privilege of constructing street railway.
Sharp was tried separately.
Temperatures below zero were reported in
the Northwest on Saturday last as follows:
St, Vincent, Minnesota, %; Fort Garry, %; |
Minnedosa, y; Fort Totten, Is; Bismark, 16;
Cheyenne, 10; Fort Custer, u: Fort Assina-
'oine, 26i Fort Beauford, Is. At St. Paul |
md Duluth the markings were above zero.
rhe.Missssippi river at Lacrosse, Wisconsin, !
vas closed on Sunday night, the temperature /
being 20 degrees below zero. This is the
earliest closing ever known At st. Paul the
temperature at o'clock Monday morning
marked p degrees below zero At Galena.
illinois, it was 10 below zero on Sunday night.
At Chicago Monday morning it was above
zero.
Near Perida, Alabama, on Friday of last
week, half-witted boy, named Charles Bak.
IT, after witnessing '.the killing of the family
neat disappeared for sometime with his
brother and sister, aged, respectively, four
md six years. He returned alone, his clothes
covered with blood and told his mother he
lad killed them, showing sharp butcher
inife with which he said he had done the
york. Following him to the spot in the